The origins of Christian morality :

Meeks, Wayne A.

The origins of Christian morality : the first two centuries / Wayne A. Meeks. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c1993. - x, 275 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-260) and indexes.

Morals and community--
Turning: moral consequences of conversion--
City, household, people of God--
Loving and hating the world--
The language of obligation--
The grammar of christian practice--
Knowing evil--
The body as sign and problem--
A life worthy of God--
Senses of an ending--
The moral story--
History, pluralism, and christian morality

0300056400 (alk. paper)

93010226


Bible.--N.T.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Christian ethics--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Ethics in the Bible.
Sociology, Biblical.

BJ 1212 / .M43 1993

241/.09/015